Location: London OR Newbury + Hybrid
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday
Hybrid – you may work both in the office and at home; we ask you to come into the office 2-3 days each week, for at least 8 days per month, as agreed with your line manager.
What you’ll do
* Own and manage the end-to-end P&L for SMARTY, including revenue, costs, and unit economics, with clear accountability for performance delivery
* Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range planning processes, ensuring robust financial outlooks aligned to commercial strategy
* Own month‑end performance reporting, delivering clear variance analysis, insight, and commentary on key drivers of performance
* Proactively identify, track, and manage Risks & Opportunities (R&O), working closely with stakeholders to maximise opportunities and mitigate risks
* Deliver high‑quality performance insight and storytelling, translating financial data into clear, actionable recommendations for stakeholders
* Act as a key finance partner to commercial and trading teams, influencing performance, strategy, and decision‑making
* Lead on business casing, investment appraisal, and post‑investment reviews, ensuring strong financial returns and robust challenge of assumptions
* Drive discussions on pricing, trading performance, and unit economics optimisation to support value creation
* Provide insight into key value drivers, supporting optimisation of customer, revenue, and cost performance
* Partner with FP&A and BI teams to enhance reporting, improve data visibility, and develop new insights
* Support OpEx management and cost control, ensuring transparency and financial discipline across the business
* Build strong, trusted relationships across finance and commercial teams to drive alignment and performance outcomes
* Deliver ad-hoc analysis and support strategic initiatives in a fast‑paced, evolving environment
Who you are
* A qualified finance professional (ACCA, CIMA or ACA) with strong commercial acumen and experience driving business performance in a fast‑paced environment
* Highly analytical, with advanced financial modelling capability and the ability to distil complex data into clear, actionable insights
* Proven experience in business partnering, with confidence influencing and constructively challenging senior commercial and non‑finance stakeholders
* A strong communicator and storyteller, able to present financial performance, risks, and opportunities in a clear and compelling way
* Deep understanding of P&L management, forecasting, and the key drivers of revenue, cost, and profitability
* Commercially minded, with a strong grasp of unit economics and value creation, and a passion for optimising trading performance
* Skilled in business casing and investment appraisal, with the ability to challenge assumptions and ensure robust decision‑making
* Detail‑oriented, with a focus on delivering high‑quality, accurate outputs while maintaining a broader strategic perspective
* A proactive self‑starter with a problem‑solving mindset and a drive to continuously improve processes and insight
* Confident working in a dynamic, evolving environment, able to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines
* Strong collaborator, building trusted relationships across finance, commercial, FP&A, and BI teams
* Advanced user of Excel and highly confident in creating impactful PowerPoint presentations for senior stakeholders
* Motivated by growth, with a continuous improvement mindset and aspiration to develop leadership capability over time
Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly?
We are passionate about Inclusion for All and encourage you to apply, even if your experience does not align exactly with every part of the job description. We are a Disability Confident Employer and actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply. If you would like to participate in our ‘Offer an Interview’ scheme, please indicate this on your application.
What we offer
Great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work. personalise benefits for you and your family, such as discounts, vouchers, a pension plan. Learning tools, parental leave policies and more support your career development.
Need to Know
We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. All offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet regulator standards.
For reasonable adjustments or accessibility requests during recruitment, see the Accessibility section of our Careers website.
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